“when your down on your luck and you've lost all your dreams theres nothing like a campfire and a can of beans”

“Never have your wallet with you onstage. It's bad luck. You shouldn't play the piano with money in your pocket. Play like you need the money.Tom Waits (to me, about 1986 or so)”

“Your old home town's so far away, but inside your head there's a record that's playing, a song called 'Hold On”

“bringing up children was]like living with a bunch of drunks...you really have to be on your toes all the time.”

“He likes a day in the studio to end, he says, "when my knees are all skinned up and my pants are wet and my hair's off to one side and I feel like I've been in the foxhole all day. I don't think comfort is good for music. It's good to come out with skinned knuckles after wrestling with something you can't see. I like it when you come home at the end of the day from recording and someone says, "What happened to your hand?" And you don't even know. When you're in that place, you can dance on a broken ankle.”

“I just don't like the word 'fun'--it's like Volkswagen, or bell-bottoms, or patchouli-oil or bean-sprouts...it rubs me up the wrong way.”

“When the weather's rough and it's whiskey in the rain it's best to wrap your savior up in cellophane.”